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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Romans 5 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Romans 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/4.htm" title="Romans 4">◄</a> Romans 5 <a href="../romans/6.htm" title="Romans 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/romans/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Peace with God Through Faith</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts let us">a</a></sup></span> have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Through him we have also obtained access by faith<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts omit by faith">b</a></sup></span> into this grace in which we stand, and we<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or let us; also verse 3">c</a></sup></span> rejoice<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or boast; also verses 3, 11">d</a></sup></span> in hope of the glory of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.</p> <p class="heading">Death in Adam, Life in Christ</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women; also twice in verse 18">e</a></sup></span> because all sinned— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore, as one trespass<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the trespass of one">f</a></sup></span> led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the act of righteousness of one">g</a></sup></span> leads to justification and life for all men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Some manuscripts <i>let us</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Some manuscripts omit <i class="catch-word">by faith</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>let us</i>; also verse 3<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>boast</i>; also verses 3, 11<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> The Greek word <i language="Greek">anthropoi</i> refers here to both men and women; also twice in verse 18<br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>the trespass of one</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>the act of righteousness of one</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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